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Col. Douglas Macgregor on Tucker Carlson's show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Col. Macgregor says in this clip that the US is already "privately" encouraging the Syrian Kurds to make peace with Damascus.
If everybody watching Tucker Carlson's show knows this now, then it's not "private" anymore, is it?
Maybe
we can have an honest public discussion about this now. Up until now,
as is so often the case with U.S. foreign policy, there have been two
separate conversations: one designed for the broad U.S. public, where we
talk about "American values," and the other for foreign policy
insiders, where we talk about "American interests." But the "interests"
in the insiders' conversation are often not the interests of the
majority of Americans.
So let us now pose the
question: is it in now the interests of the majority of Americans for
the U.S. to encourage the Syrian Kurds to seek accommodation with the
government in Damascus, given the widespread international perception
that the overall outcome of the war in Syria has already been
determined?
Defense Priorities has argued that
the U.S. should encourage accommodation between the Syrian Kurds and
the Syrian government rather than try to block it. What do Members of
Congress think? Supposedly they are in charge of this.
DISENTANGLING FROM SYRIA’S CIVIL WAR
THE CASE FOR U.S. MILITARY WITHDRAWAL
BENJAMIN H. FRIEDMAN
POLICY DIRECTOR, DEFENSE PRIORITIES
JUSTIN LOGAN
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATE,
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP
[...]
4.
A U.S. military presence in Syria was not necessary to protect Syria’s
Kurds before the civil war and is not necessary now.It is true that the
Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG militia) did most of the ground
fighting against ISIS in Syria and a quick U.S. exit could expose them
to attack by Turkey. That is why the United States should support
(rather than block, as Washington is currently doing) the deal that the
Kurds are pursuing—essentially to restore the status quo ante
bellum—where Syrian government forces control Syria’s borders, and they
operate at some distance from Turkey. The United States never signed up
to protect an autonomous Kurdish statelet. That mission would keep U.S.
forces engaged in an indefinite standoff or worse with Syrian and
Turkish forces.
[...]
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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
(202) 448-2898 x1
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